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For 2009.2.0.2 we are shipping a newer version of network than comes with ghc-6.10.4 and the same older version of time. We will not be installing time unnecessarily because we're installing the correct version of time. The installer will use ghc-pkg to hide the time 1.1.3 version that comes with ghc-6.10.4 so that the correct version of the package will be used by default.

Yes, we should do profiling libs by default.

There's a dilema with not-reinstalling which is that the platform installer script cannot be used to recover a borked installation.

The --with-blah options are not connected to anything, but ./configure does not complain about unrecognised --with-blah options. We would accept a patch to connect the --with-blah flags to the problematic FFI packages. In general though we do not want to go down the route of making subsets of the platform. It lessens its status as a standard set that package authors can rely on.